Mexico authorities complicit in mass grave: prosecutor

[Judi Lynn]

BY AFP 1 HOUR AGO


The top prosecutor for the blood-stained Mexican state of Veracruz accused authorities here Thursday of being complicit in recently discovered mass graves containing at least 242 bodies.

The gruesome find in a remote field in the eastern state was made over a six-month period, starting in August when mothers searching for their missing children discovered the first of the clandestine graves.

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"It's impossible that nobody realized what was happening here, with vehicles coming and going," said the prosecutor, Jorge Winckler Ortiz.

"If this wasn't done with authorities' complicity, I don't know how else it could have been done," he told a press conference in the open field outside the port city of Veracruz where the bodies were found.

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